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Effect of a Decision Aid on Decision Making for Family Member's Disclosure of Terminal Illness

NCT00686673 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 440

Last updated 2011-02-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is a randomized controlled trial that will compare two arms: an experimental intervention group that receives a decision aid consisting of an educational video and targeted manual providing a protocol for the family members' disclosing terminal illness to the patients and aimed at improving communication, satisfaction with decision making process, and quality of life between patients and their family versus an attention control group that receives a video and non-tailored manual on pain control.

Conditions

  • Terminal Illness

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Providing tailored message on disclosing terminal illness

an experimental intervention group that receives a decision aid consisting of targeted educational video and manual providing a protocol for disclosing terminal illness and aimed at improving communication between patients and their family

BEHAVIORAL

Providing non-tailored message on pain control

an attention control group that receives non-tailored video and manual on pain control

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Center, Korea

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Young Ho Yun, MD, PhD · National Cancer Center, Korea

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-06-30
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2009-03-31

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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